Health Services Accessibility
"Health Services Accessibility" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.
| Descriptor ID |
D006297
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.374.350 N05.300.430
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Services Accessibility- Health Services Accessibility
- Availability of Health Services
- Health Services Availability
- Accessibility, Health Services
- Access to Health Care
- Accessibility of Health Services
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Services Accessibility" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2010 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2013 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2014 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2015 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2016 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 2018 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2019 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2020 | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| 2021 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in Profiles.
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Document review of the paper-based implementation of the Framework and strategy for disability and rehabilitation in Gauteng, South Africa. PLoS One. 2025; 20(2):e0315778.
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Access to Health Care and Use of Health Care Services Among Males in Africa: Protocol for a Scoping Review. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jan 31; 14:e52351.
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Experiences with Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Service Delivery and Use Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Routine Primary Care Settings, South Africa. AIDS Behav. 2025 Apr; 29(4):1216-1227.
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Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution? Glob Health Action. 2024 Dec 31; 17(1):2437883.
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Assessing patients' experience of care in four referral hospitals: a cross-sectional survey of outpatients in two South African rural provinces. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec 18; 24(1):1566.
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Improving access to emergency obstetric care in low- and middle-income countries. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2025 Feb; 98:102572.
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Do health care quality improvement policies work for all? Distributional effects by baseline quality in South Africa. Health Econ. 2025 Jan; 34(1):175-199.
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Applying CFIR to assess multi-level barriers to PrEP delivery in rural South Africa: Processes, gaps and opportunities for service delivery of current and future PrEP modalities. Soc Sci Med. 2024 Nov; 361:117370.
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Understanding the preferences of young women in self-sampling interventions for sexually transmitted infection diagnosis: a discrete choice experimental protocol. BMJ Open. 2024 09 24; 14(9):e082981.
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Access to and acceptability of sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction and other essential health services among people who inject drugs in Durban, South Africa. Harm Reduct J. 2024 06 26; 21(1):123.